by Shelley Jackson Presentation by Kenneth Roman & Peter Hammersley •Hypertext Fiction •Pastiche •Lexia •Electronic Space •Post-Modern After-ing •Non-Linear Exploration •Is it a piece of liturature? •Births (several) •Born 1963 in the Philippines •Parents ran a small bookstore for several years in Berkeley •BA in Art from Stanford, MFA in Creative Writing from Brown •Village Voice “Writer on the Verge” and Pushcart Prize Winner •Her works have spanned different Literature forms: hypertext, short story collections, a novel and even a tattooed •Published by Eastgate Systems in 1995 •Written using the Storyspace program •Started as a drawing of a naked woman with dotted line scars during a hypertext lecture •Inspired by the novels: •Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) •Patchwork Girl of Oz (L. Frank Baum, 1913) •Greek Mythology "Brilliantly conceived and Some people prefer linear beautifully written." -- text and narration over George P. Landow, author hypertext of Hypertext 3.0 "A cult hit." --Village Voice "Wonderfully rich and complex." -- N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA Victor Frankenstein's companion creature Is secretly finished by Mary Shelley herself Mary and the “Patchwork Girl” lay together and become apart of each other Patchwork girl escapes to the New World while dealing with her degenerating body ’ • 1st Person Narrators •A graveyard •A journey •A quilt •A story •& Broken Accents •Hypertext: •Storyspace Map •Links/Hidden Links •Lexias •Pictures •Tables ’ •Patchwork Girl •Mary Shelley •Shelley Jackson •Percy Shelley •Elsie •Ojo/ Margolette’s/magician/shaggy man/dorothy •Body Part “donors” •Chancy •Madam Q Feminism ◦ Queer Identity ◦ Concept of Beauty Chimera ◦ Monster/Cyborg/Creature/deamon/supreme freak Self – Identity Thoughts as limbs of composition Degeneration, Dismemberment, Fragmentation http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/jackson.html http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Huffman/Production s/pgpaper.html http://www.egs.edu/faculty/shelley-jackson/biography/ http://ineradicablestain.com/ http://darevirginia.com/thesis.pdf http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/PatchworkGirl.html.